Please don't take this as rushing you, , but any kind of ETA for when the SoAA will be operational? I dig the screenshots, it is absolutely wunderbar to see this location go from the conceptual to the completed.

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Yup. The problem with the dragon is, he eats his weight in gems--so very expensive to make use of for the dwarves and therefore likely used sparingly and in as few days possible to avoid financial ruin.

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Honey, I know, I know, I know times are changin'It's time we all reach out for something new, that means you tooYou say you want a leader, but you can't seem to make up your mindAnd I think you better close it and let me guide you to the Purple Crane

I see that the Firehair Clan have been busy working on the SoAA while Fren was visiting her homelands.

As I recall there was discussion at one point of making the equivalent of a community echest (for persistence between resets) which folks could donate stuff into on an honor system basis. Is this still in the works?

LoW's AF has a "community chest" that persists across resets.... worked quite nicely too. Yeah, high levels sometimes dumped a super item into there, but most of the time, it would be a decent stock of healing potions, protective potions (neg-energy protection was very important for lowbies), summon scrolls, low end common magical goods.... And the players generally respected it's use and didn't abuse it.

I would encourage that for Aenea, even if the chest was made to sell the stuff for a fixed amount.

Persistent player shops would be nice too for a way to offload high end loot across multiple resets.

I add my vote for this persistent chest for donations to lowbies. This is just the sort of thing that my civically-minded ranger would do, keep the donations for the novices and the needy stocked. And that would certainly help her disgorge those bags that she keeps specifically for donations to newcomers.

[In fact, Ramana thinks that there should be a soup kitchen/clinic in Macedone (Harbor), complete with donation chest and healer, for the alley rats and poor. Hm... now that I voice it, I think that's where some of her RP might be going... and I could design that area....]

Number of posts : 1032Location : Earth, Sol system, in the Mutter's Spiral galaxyMain Character : Ramana Domefarar -
Publicly a Ranger, privately an Opportunist.
Lay Follower of Jewel,
Sensate and practitioner of the Way of Pleasure.Other Character : Ranara Duauth -
A being created by shadow and water, a wizard.
Is actually another persona of Ramana.Other Character. : Dae, the panther,
companion to both Ramana and Ranara,
and the best real eye-witness to the
strange circumstance of those alternating personae. Other Character.. : The Personae of Ramana JalaNWN Username : Ramana JalaTime Zone : US Eastern TimeRegistration date : 2011-08-29